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U.S. tech industry has 100 days to lay off more than 100,000 people (map)


According to foreign media reports that the United States well-known technology blog Techcrunch site statistical report released Friday said this year from Aug. 27 to start the five-week period (100 days), the United States a total of 300 different Types of technology and media companies to be laid off, the total job cuts exceeded 100,000 mark, reaching 109,629 people.

This year the United States after the financial crisis, the U.S. technology industry has suffered huge blow, especially a large number of technology start-ups are forced to lay off up a big stick, a phenomenon this year in September to November during the performance of the parties.

To enter in December, the United States of large technology companies have begun large-scale layoffs. Sony announced Tuesday that it would cut 8,000 employees; AT & T last week announced that it would lay off 12,000 people; Alcatel-Lucent (Alonso) Friday said it would cut 1,000 management jobs; Yahoo on Wednesday sent 1,500 staff Dismissal notices; CBS (CBS) Interactive’s department this week also CNet, Last.fm site, such as layoffs, of which 275 were laid off CNet.

Techcrunch said the 109,629 people laid off the amount of statistical data may be missing, the U.S. technology industry since by the end of August this year, since the actual number of layoffs may be higher than this figure.

December 13, 2008 - Posted by foxon168 | Internet news | , | No Comments Yet

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